Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ruiz makes the bold decision to take on Ayckbourn's play at full speed. Using the split stage like a trapeze, he has his actors bounce, trip and tumble from one level to the next in rapid succession. Props fly, clothes come off and on and off again, and lines of dialogue ricochet off the walls like bullets...
Fans can indulge themselves in the Harvard-Princeton rivalry even more as the games will be extended from seven- to nine-inning contests. Should the champions of the Red Rolfe and Lou Gehrig Divisions split tomorrow's double-header, they will play the rubber match at O'Donnell on Sunday...
Instead of standing on a side and knowing what is wrong and what is right, we stand in a great gray area (another favorite color of moderates). In this new world, where most voters split their tickets, Americans find ourselves without a clear notion of what our politicians really believe...
...another day. "The Senate isn't ready to take a stand yet," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "Half of them like McCain's resolution, and the other half want to keep some control for themselves and make Clinton come to them if he wants ground troops. The split crosses party lines. The leadership would rather not have to choose...
...movie version of the 1950s, schools split into two camps: the fresh-scrubbed kids (frats, preppies) and the leather-clad rebels (hoods, greasers). It's more complicated these days. Columbine's 1,935 students look a lot alike--mostly white, well off and primed for success. But students have no trouble ticking off a startling number of cliques--jocks, hockey kids (a separate group), preppies, stoners, gangbangers (gang-member wannabes), skaters (as in skateboarders) and, as they say, nerds. Other high schools have variations on these themes. California has its surfer cliques, and Austin High School in Texas...